"While player agent Don Meehan said Iginla has received offers in the off-season...teams are not exactly lining up to sign a player who looked a step or two slower last season. If Edmonton or Calgary or Pittsburgh or another team is interested in Iginla, they probably want to see what they have internally with their younger players first before reaching out to a past-his-prime veteran."

That is one way of describing why Jarome Iginla remains without a contract heading into training camp. As a 40-year-old free agent, he isn’t looking to sign with just anyone. He’s got a wish list of wants that likely includes playing meaningful minutes on a Stanley Cup-contending team, in a city that makes sense for his family.

NYR, NJD and NYI are pretty close to Boston - a 30 minute flight or so (though like going to Edmonton, there's a lot more time travelling to and dealing with the airport) or a 3-4 hour drive. There's a great train, the Acela Express, that runs between NY and Boston, with a lot of comfort available. Philly and Washington are not much farther.

Is there anything stopping him from being unsigned until trade deadline day and then giving himself away for a pittance to the best cup contender?

Not that his choices for contenders last few years have been great....

Nothing stopping it, no. Other than he would have been sitting on the sidelines and not be in NHL shape. Pretty tough to plug a guy like that into the lineup during the stretch drive I think. Very doubtful he would garner any interest at that point.

Barely any team was interested in him last trade deadline when he was in game shape. No team is going to be interested in him when he's not in game shape

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Originally Posted by greyshep

Nothing stopping it, no. Other than he would have been sitting on the sidelines and not be in NHL shape. Pretty tough to plug a guy like that into the lineup during the stretch drive I think. Very doubtful he would garner any interest at that point.

Even for.....ONE MILLION DOLLARS? **less most of the million dollars as I league min prorated for the couple months is virtually nothing